Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2024

The election is over. How do we feel now?

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum , that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider...

Our looming civil unrest is predicted by Turchin's historical model.

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I recommend you have a look at Graeme Wood's article on the writing and thoughts of Peter Turchin, who has developed a model based on t...
Friday, August 09, 2024

Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.org)

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Below are URLs of journal articles  I find interesting and think might be of interest to some MindBlog readers.  Most are open source. Email...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

The Art of Pretending to Govern

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Venkatesh Rao's most recent installment of his RibbonFarm Breaking Smart series has comments on the seminal ideas of James Scott, a wri...
Friday, August 02, 2024

The Ooze is Growing

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In case you haven't seen enough pessimistic predictions about the next ~10-20 years, I pass on the following clips from a recent instal...
Monday, July 22, 2024

The blanding and flattening of our culture

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Since I returned to live in my family home in Austin Texas in 2017 I have been  sad to see the continuing disappearance of kinky "Keep ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

An essay on Geopolitics and Globalization

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I want to pass on one complete section, indicating titles of the others, of  a larger essay addressing tribalism versus global consciousnes...
Monday, July 15, 2024

What about some positive news for a change?

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Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophesy, as David Brooks points out . I want to point to Fix The News , a website curated by Angus ...
Friday, July 12, 2024

The emerging world order as a global version of the pre-Westphalian Middle Ages.

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I would like to pass on this link to an essay by Parag Khanna in Noema Magazine which is one of the best description of the increasing entr...
Monday, July 01, 2024

There are no more human elites of any sort...

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 I want to pass on the conclusion of a great essay by Venkatesh Rao , giving the meanings of several acronyms in parentheses. You should rea...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Off the rails - inequity and unfairness built into capitalism

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I have largely withdrawn from posting items relevant to the details of our current political and social malaise, but I want to pass on a few...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

The other shoe is about to drop in 2024 - important closure moments in the state of the world.

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I want to pass on a clip (to which I have added some definitions in parentheses) from Venkatest Rao’s most recent Ribbonfarm Studio installm...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Managing the human herd

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 This post is a dyspeptic random walk through thoughts triggered by the front page photograph of the Wall Street journal of June 17, 202...
Friday, June 14, 2024

The future of life.

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I want to pass on this science magazine review of Jamie Metzl's new book "Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revo...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The pathologies of the educated elites

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Another really nice opinion piece from David Brooks , who notes the consequences, as we have moved from the industrial age to the informatio...
Friday, June 07, 2024

Is it a fact? The epistemic force of language in news headlines.

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From Chuey et al. in PNAS (open source):   Significance Headlines are an influential source of information, especially because people oft...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right

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 I want to pass on a few clips from a recent Thomas Edsall essay , followed by a condensed version of the longer piece provided by Chat GPT ...
Monday, May 13, 2024

How the US is destroying young people's future.

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When I wake up in the morning, I frequently remind myself to be grateful for the luck of having been born in 1942, and being able to ride th...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Blueprint - Nicholas Christakis on the evolutionary origins of a good society

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This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus “Blueprint” (very...